HE news that drew views Sept. 14–18

During his ABC News town hall Tuesday night, President Donald Trump suggested a COVID vaccine may be FDA-approved by early to mid-October. “[W]e’re within weeks of getting it,” he said. “Could be three weeks, four weeks.”

Want to help the world win the war on COVID? Get a flu shot and encourage everyone within your sphere of influence to do the same.

Yet still, the past eight years have seen the highest rate of turnover in healthcare C-suites since ACHE started compiling the report in the 1980s.

Maine has topped all states in two separate five-year categories of hospital safety—percentage of “A” grade hospitals (57.1%) and average annual placement in these rankings (3.63). How did your state do?

HHS has awarded $25 million to 80 organizations that are battling the opioid epidemic in rural communities by providing prevention, treatment and recovery services.

Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., worries the agency is using taxpayer funds to fuel the commander-in-chief’s bid for a second term. 

Five-hospital Inova Health System based in Falls Church, Virginia, was among the clients of Blackbaud, a fundraising service supplier, affected by a ransomware attack against Blackbaud in May.

The emerging academic discipline of social data science, which leverages Big Data to integrate social science with computer science, has a new base of operations in the Mid-Atlantic region.